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Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael (29 March 1930 –26 August 2011) was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who established extensive quantitative methods for research in the thermodynamics of magma.


Early life and education

Carmichael was born on 29 March 1930 in London, and was raised in the town of
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. He was educated at Westminster School in London from age six until his senior year of high school, when he took an exchange trip to Connecticut; he stayed in the United States and enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He studied there for one semester before returning to England, where he was drafted into the British Army. He served in Egypt,
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, and
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for two years before joining the University of Cambridge. He obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in geology from Cambridge in 1954, and his Ph.D. in 1958 from Imperial College London, where he wrote his thesis on Iceland's Thingmuli volcano.


Career and research

After completing his thesis, Carmichael worked as a
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at Imperial College. In 1963, he began a six-month leave to work at the University of Chicago. He applied for more time at the conclusion of his term, but was rejected. Carmichael was invited to give a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, which led to him starting a
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position as an
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. He remained at Berkeley for the remainder of his career, and retired from the university in 2004. In 2004, Carmichael was the volume 1 editor of B. J. Wood's ''Landmark Papers'' series.


Awards and honours

Carmichael was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including a special issue of ''Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology'' published in his honor in 2013, the
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's 1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award, a
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that same year, the
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in 1991, and the in 1986. Carmichael was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and an honorary fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2004. He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. The mineral carmichaelite, as well as the Geological Society of America's Carmichael Student Research Grants program, are both named in his honor.


References


Further reading


"A collection of papers honoring the career and legacy of Ian S. E. Carmichael"
in '' Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmichael, Ian S. E. American geochemists American mineralogists British geochemists British volcanologists 1930 births 2011 deaths Fellows of the Geological Society of America Fellows of the American Geophysical Union British geologists British emigrants to the United States British mineralogists University of California, Berkeley faculty Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Cambridge People educated at Westminster School, London Scientists from London 20th-century British scientists 20th-century American geologists 21st-century American geologists Fellows of the Mineralogical Society of America